How Maverick City Music’s Naomi Raine Knew God Had Chosen Her
By Movieguide® Contributor
Grammy award winner and Maverick City Music member Naomi Raine is getting ready to release her solo album Journey.
She released the lead single, “Not Ready,” earlier this year.
Raine has been writing songs since she was a child. Worship music runs in the singer’s family: both her parents are worship leaders.
“I just pretty much grew up in rehearsal and in church for my whole life, groomed in music, groomed to go after the presence of the Lord,” Raine explained. “When I was 11, I got filled with the Holy Spirit and that started my relationship with the Lord, just a time of devotion.”
After briefly getting distracted by boys and an unplanned pregnancy with a man who is now her husband, Raines said she found God again and discovered what she was called to do.
“‘I want you to tell everybody about my goodness, and my grace, and this Gospel that’s bigger than you and it’s bigger than our works and what we try to do. Tell people that I came to save them,’” she said of God’s message for her.
Raine also spoke about the huge success she has found with Maverick City Music.
“I have never experienced anything like this in my life,” Raine explained. “We all have personal stuff that we go through mentally and some of the lies that the enemy told me is that ‘Nobody cares about what you have to say. Nobody cares about your voice. Just be quiet; just sit in the back.’ And so a lot of my devotion and worship to Jesus was super personal and private, and I was good there. Then I realized the Lord wanted me to come out.”
She continued, “When I’m out there worshiping, I’m not worshiping y’all. Like I’m not worshiping for y’all and to y’all, I’m worshiping God, and hopefully, somebody decides to worship Him too. It’s really about Him. So just to see that people are actually responding to that, and they want it, and they’re going deeper in their relationship with the Lord, people are getting saved, people are getting healed. Getting delivered like that is just mind-blowing because He said He would do it, but it’s amazing. It’s like the miracle of childbirth. We know it happens every single day but it doesn’t cease to be amazing.”
As for her new album, Raine said, “It’s about facing the truth. It’s about facing yourself.”
She continued:
“What I realized is that when you face the truth, and when you tell the truth, tell yourself the truth, and tell others the truth: you are going to go through difficulty. And if you can’t handle that you can slip into depression, you can slip into some of these places because it’s difficult to tell the truth and change your life.
”I know people look and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, the girl that sings ‘Jireh’ and she’s like, ‘I’m already loved. I’m already chosen.’ The only reason I can say that is because I went through a season where I was reminded of the Father’s love, of His promises over my life,” Raine said. “And the words that He’s spoken over me when I sing, I’m not pretending, we wrote that from a real place. I can only sing that because I’ve gone through that with Him.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Maverick City Music’s success:
The worship band known as Maverick City Music has made waves in the Christian music scene over the past few years with popular tracks like “Jireh” and “Promise.”
Their popular anthems are led by members Alton Eugene, Naomi Raine, Chandler Moore, Dante Bowe, Brandon Lake, Aaron Moses, and Harold Brown, but little is known about their background.
However, co-founders Jonathan Jay, CEO of Tribl Records, and Tony Brown recently shared their inspiration behind the music group.
The duo formed the group in 2018 after years of songwriting camps that brought together people from across the country to write hundreds of praise songs.
Since its conception, Maverick City Music has found itself atop Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums and Christian Albums and collaborated with Justin Bieber and other award-winning artists.
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